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People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.
Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.
I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.